Italian
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb fettuccine
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1.5 cups heavy cream
- 1.5 cups grated parmesan
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the fettuccine until al dente, reserving a cup of pasta water.
- Melt the butter in a wide skillet over medium heat and cook the garlic until fragrant, 1 minute.
- Pour in the cream and simmer gently until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes.
- Whisk in the parmesan and nutmeg until smooth.
- Add the drained pasta and toss, loosening with pasta water until the sauce coats every strand.
- Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with parsley, and serve immediately.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Fettuccine Alfredo carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Fettuccine Alfredo takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on fettuccine, cream, and parmesan.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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